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Allegro upgrade

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Printed Date: 22 Nov 2024 at 11:06pm


Topic: Allegro upgrade
Posted By: pspear
Subject: Allegro upgrade
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 7:32pm
I just installed Orcad PCB 17.2.050. Previously I had been using 16.6.110. Both are installed and I can switch back and forth with the Cadence switch release tool. I am using Library Expert 2018.09. 

Now when I try to generate parts the script always opens the 16.6 tools regardless of what have selected with the Cadence switch release tool. If I run the script myself from a cmd window it works fine. 

It looks like the autorun batch feature is using %CDSROOT% from a different environment block. 

I did select "all users" when I installed Cadence. Maybe that has something to do with the problem?

Any suggestions would be appreciated. In the meantime I will just run the batch files manually.


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Posted By: Tom H
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 9:10pm
Use the Allegro option.

Also, download and install V2019.01.




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Posted By: pspear
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2019 at 9:28am
V2019.01 fixes it. thanks Tom

I did notice that batch processing with multiple parts per script has minor bug. The "if exists ..." line is not correct and the parts are not deleted. The overwrite dialog then pops up.

Cheers
Peter

Posted By: Tom H
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2019 at 11:34am
We got customer complaints that overwriting existing parts were a bad thing, so we updated the code.

Some people go through great pain to drop in custom 3D models and overwriting the existing part destroyed that effort.


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